The moment of imminent redesign and rewrite was getting closer.
With each major release of macOS, the application was getting more lines of obsolete code, deprecated APIs and officially unsupported features. In this constant race for more features, while becoming more powerful and rich, Path Finder was also becoming increasingly aged. And we were adding more and more… Until we couldn’t keep doing it that way any longer. We got ourselves into a constant drag race between features people wanted and those we could implement in a given time. People were asking for more and we were delivering more. During all those years, Path Finder was becoming more powerful, functional, configurable and feature rich. The name was clearly telling people what the application did (and we also got tired of the old SNAX name as well). This popular feature led to a name change, hence Path Finder. It offers a lot more functionality than the Finder ever will and there’s no other app that comes close.SNAX 1: List view was the only option back in 2001.Īnother nice feature people immediately liked was the Path Navigator (later transformed into both clickable and editable path bar). That’s been fixed and so have a lot of other small bugs and incompatibilities.ĭespite the fact that version 9 has no new jaw-dropping features, it’s more than worth the money of upgrading. For example, searching for files without the interference of Spotlight no longer gave any results in version 8. It improves compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina. Path Finder 9 also brings many significant improvements in the way the application performs and behaves. I tried the latter with a Soulver file and it actually worked better than in BBEdit which didn’t recognise the individual parts of that file. Path Finder 9 will postpone copying, moving, deleting or archiving files if they are busy and has improved syntax colorising of text-based files in the Preview module. Gone with the obligation to save files to the Desktop because you use them so often that it becomes tedious to open the Documents folder each time you need them. Unlike the Finder, Path Finder 9 now lets you add regular files into the Sidebar’s “Favourites” list. On my system, they now continuously sync in both ways, so if you remove a tag in the Finder it’s gone in Path Finder too after a second or two. Tags used to sync but sometimes in one direction only. Another thing that now works well is the synchronisation between Path Finder and the Finder where it concerns tags. Some behaviour that was gone in version 8, such as drag-and-drop files into the Toolbar have returned but without the D&D functionality because that method stopped working in macOS 10.14 Mojave. And shelves can be collapsed as in the old days. You can make Path Finder’s shelves your own as you can arrange those modules freely as well. The new implementation offers four shelves and allows you to add as many modules in any shelf as you like. Path Finder 9’s module shelves are better than version 7’s. The new version is also fully Catalina compatible and still is the best replacement for the Finder and even if you keep on using the Finder, it offers, as it has done in all previous versions, superior functionality in areas such as compression, file renaming (batch capabilities), folder comparison, etc. With Path Finder 9, Cocoatech brings back the collapsible module shelves from version 7 that created all the - unnecessary, if you ask me - fuss when version 8 came out.
The reason was that version 8 was totally new under the waterline with no new features that people could play with, except the modular approach of the information panels. Path Finder 8 was a complete overhaul under the hood but was not too well received by its many impatient customers. Cocoatech’s Path Finder is a must-have app for anyone who’s not too happy with the Finder’s performance and feature set.
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